Nattie Neidhart autobiography movie reportedly drawing Hollywood interest
A movie based on Nattie Neidhart’s 2025 autobiography, The Last Hart Beating, could be in the works.
According to a report from WrestleVotes Radio on Fightful Select on Thursday, several Hollywood names have “expressed strong interest” in turning the book into a movie. An “A-list production company” is said to be interested.
In early 2024, Nattie posted a message to Instagram that she was working on a project “near and dear” to her heart, and tagged Rory Culkin and Yale Productions.
Later that year, Nattie spoke to TV Insider about The Iron Claw, the movie based on the Von Erichs, and also teased that a movie based on her family could be in the works. She also mentioned Paul Walter Hauser as someone who could potentially play her father, Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart.
Nattie said:
“If I were going to do a movie and could choose who I would personally want to play my dad, it would be Paul Walter Hauser. Paul is a huge wrestling fan. He just won the Emmy Award and called out Matt Cardona in his acceptance speech. I love Paul’s passion for the industry. I see old footage of my dad and think, ‘If there was a movie on the Hart family, call Paul Walter Hauser.’ I can’t unsee him as my dad. He has to be my dad. I love Paul. I think it’s so commendable that someone from his world has so much respect for us.”
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